The Daily Racecar build thread

[Whiskerz]

Well this past weekend I took a trip up to Washington for Ocean Shores Focus Wars, had a great time, cars actually pretty comfortable on long road trips even with the stiff spring rates! Got TONNES of pictures from the weekend up on my website.

https://Www.cleancarculture.com/ocean-shores-focus-wars-4

I also shot a feature with my mates Focus ST while I was up there. Check that out too!

https://Www.cleancarculture.com/brian-reich-focus-st

Will be posting some of the pictures of my car to the thread when i get a chance to upload them to photo-bucket.

[Azrial89]

Just read through your build, pretty good. Then I noticed you are in the Bay Area. I moved here 2 months ago and have been looking for any sort of car shows, I looked up the Facebook page in your sig and couldn't find when the next meet is... When and where do your meets take place?

[Whiskerz]

Just read through your build, pretty good. Then I noticed you are in the Bay Area. I moved here 2 months ago and have been looking for any sort of car shows, I looked up the Facebook page in your sig and couldn't find when the next meet is... When and where do your meets take place?

Sadly at our August meet a guy in a truck rolled up and decided to do a burn out right in front of the shop that was hosting out meets. So for now meets are on hold until I can find a new spot to hosts the meets.

However, Camibeat monthly meets are restarting in Fremont this coming weekend. Gonna be more like cars & coffee though since its at 8am! Search for Canibeat Monthly Gatherings! On Facebook there's an event page for it

[Pug307]

I've really enjoyed reading your thread, Looking forward to the next update, Really awesome to see the car be transformed over time rather than one big update

[Whiskerz]

So I finally got the pictures of my car up on photobucket so I could post em here, enjoy!









and yes I did have some fun on the beach while I was there, I had to :lol: :lol:

[Whiskerz]

Well its new clutch time for me, clutch has started slipping pretty bad.

Going to order Clutchmasters FX250 if I can get it through my buddies shop. The plan is to boost the car towards the end of next year so having the clutch for it is necessary. Plus I beat on the car quite alot with canyon runs so having a clutch that will take it is paramount.

[Whiskerz]

Well clutch is in, break in periods suck!

I now have my traction control and ABS lights on though, I think something is just loose as it went off when I hit one bump then came back on after another.

Also not moving to Indiana.... But will be out of a job shortly :/

[Whiskerz]

So nothing new on the car as of right now. It's actually in SMOG mode which is boring as all hell.

I am looking into picking up a set of SSR Koenigs from a friend that would need rebuilt so I could run them without spacers so if people could post me in the right direction for lips and barrels for those that would be great.

[Whiskerz]

My business CleanCarCulture just became a Chemical Guys dealer and to celebrate we are doing a group buy!

To participate fill in the form (link in bottom of post), I will email out price quotes this evening.

If you want to proceed with the purchase I will send out a paypal invoice. All invoices must be paid for by end of day Thursday (25th Feb). Order will be getting placed with Chemical Guys at the end of the week.

If you have any questions not related to pricing, let me know!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vS31oVh_BpBvYj53WalVZF-YoPokJfrPutvhQi9mqr0/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form

[Whiskerz]

The temptation for new wheels has begun again, it's a yearly thing with me... after a year I get bored and wanna switch it up....

However I have the problem of being a 4x108 bolt pattern and wanting 18s... It's slim pickings without custom ordering a new set or doing fill n drill.

Also half heartedly priced put going bags, going with 3H management, Airlift Mazda 3 rear kit (minus the shocks) and UAS bags for the front. Came out to around $3k the temptation is real. But at the same time my want for a factory turbo car is real too, so I'm really split on where to go from here.

Be done with this project and move to a new canvas or continue this build and take things to another level?

[Whiskerz]

Well ordered myself a new Massive EZ-Mount for the gearbox this time with the SupeRace bushings, previous one lasted a while with the softer bushings(76A) so lets hope the 95A ones hold up a bit better to my abuse.

Need to do a little more maintenance soon too, kinda tempted to change wheel setups but lack of a job currently is stiffling that plan for now (unless someone with 4x108 wants to trade)

[Whiskerz]

Well since I had a couple bulbs out I went ahead and ordered some LED replacements.

So now I have LED's for the side repeaters and my parking lights in the MACHS. Might throw the LED in the number plate on the back if they are the same size (still need to check to verify)

[rice4life]

Subbing to this thread, can't believe I haven't seen this!(well, I have seen this, just forgot about it unfortunately, hell I even posted in this thread a couple years back). I just picked up a mk1 focus as a rally/street project, glad to see that yours is so nice! My current one is a mk1 zx3 with the standard zetec, looking at getting an svt for the track. Never thought I would like a car like the focus so much, they are really underrated cars.

Thanks for the inspiration!

[Whiskerz]

Subbing to this thread, can't believe I haven't seen this!(well, I have seen this, just forgot about it unfortunately, hell I even posted in this thread a couple years back). I just picked up a mk1 focus as a rally/street project, glad to see that yours is so nice! My current one is a mk1 zx3 with the standard zetec, looking at getting an svt for the track. Never thought I would like a car like the focus so much, they are really underrated cars.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Well welcome back and thanks for the kind words!

If needs be join a bunch of the Facebook groups we even have a buy/sell/trade group which is great for picking up used aftermarket parts!

[rice4life]

Well welcome back and thanks for the kind words!

If needs be join a bunch of the Facebook groups we even have a buy/sell/trade group which is great for picking up used aftermarket parts!

Might just do that once the car is presentable. I need to get some minor stuff out of the way before more mods go on it. It's got a fresh engine, exedy clutch, oversized dirt tires on the stock 16" alloys and other goodies like an exhaust system, but it has some battle damage. I'll make a thread for it once it's good to go.

Thanks, any good focus forums out there that you would recommend?